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Colloquium Seminar Schedule

Location: Math 3206 -- Tea follows in 3201
Time: 3:00
Day: Friday
Organizer: John Osborn/Niranjan Ramachandran



Schedule for Academic Year 2001-2002

August 31: Welcome to the Academic Year Celebration
Profesor Dan Rudolf (Acting Chair, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park)
September 7: Distance Estimates in Riemannian Geometry
Professor Peter Petersen (Department of Mathematics, UCLA), petersen@math.ucla.edu
September 14: Boundaries of Groups: A View from the Inside
Professor Hillel Furstenberg (Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University)
September 21: The Colloquium will not meet this week. No regular Colloquium had been planned because of the INTERPHASE Conference (www.math.umd.edu/research/interphase), which the Campus was hosting. Now, because of the recent terrorist attacks, the conference has been postponed. It has tentatively been rescheduled for early January, 2002.
October 5: Othogonal Systems and Convolution Equations
Professor Israel Gohberg (School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University), icg@math.umd.edu
October 19: Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Energy and Environmental Modeling
Professor Mary F. Wheeler (Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Department of Mathematics, and Center for Subsurface Modeling, TICAM, University of Texas at Austin), mfw@ticam.utexas.edu
October 29: The Radon Ansatz and the Watergate method Oct 26th's Colloquium is moved to Oct 29th. This will be joint with the Student Faculty Colloquium.
Leon Ehrenpreis (Temple University), Department of Mathematics, Temple University, 1805 North Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19122-2585, USA
October 30: Periods of Eisenstein and Poincaré series This will be in Room 1310 at 3:30pm.
Leon Ehrenpries
November 2: An Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach to the Navier-Stokes Equations
Professor Peter Constantin (Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago), const@math.uchicago.edu
November 9: Conformal Covariants, Elliptic Equations and Curvature Pinching
Professor Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Department of Mathematics, Princeton University), chang@math.princeton.edu
November 16: Aziz Lecture: Mathematical Problems in Meteorology and Oceanography
Professor Roger Temam (College Professor of Mathematics, Director of Institute for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics, Indiana University), temam@indiana.edu
November 30: Distinguished University Professor Lecture Series: Deterministic and Stochastic Perturbations in Dynamical Systems
Professor Mark Friedlin (Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland), mif@math.umd.edu
December 7: Distinguished University Professor Lecture Series: Mathematical Prospects in Continuum Physics
Professor Stuart Antman (Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland), ssa@math
February 1: Fubini's Nightmare in Dynamical Systems
Professor Yakov Pesin (Department of Mathematics, Penn State University), pesin@math.psu.edu
February 8: Integrable Systems, Gromov - Witten Invariants and Riemann - Hilbert problem
Professor Boris Dubrovin (SISSA, Trieste, and IAS), dubrovin@ias.edu
February 15: Distinguished University Professor Lecture Series: Determining the Genome of the Human and other animals.
Jim Yorke (Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Department of Mathemtics, UMCP), yorke@ipst.umd.edu
February 22: Topology of Lagrangian Embeddings
Professor Yakov Eliashberg (Institute for Advanced Study), eliash@mhost.math.ias.edu
March 1: The Structure of Locally Compact and Pro-Lie Groups
Karl H. Hofmann (Darmstadt University of Technology (TUD) and Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana), hofmann@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de
March 8: Finite Element Circus. The regular colloquium will not meet this week. For further information, see the Finite Element Circus www site.
March 15: Characters, motives, and logic
Professor Thomas C. Hales (Univ. of Michigan and Univ. of Pittsburgh), hales+@pitt.edu
March 22: Multiple Recurrence and The Properties of Large Sets. This lecture is part of the Spring Dynamics Conference.
Professor Vitaly Bergelson (Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University), vitaly@math.ohio-state.edu
April 5: Distinguished University Professor Lecture Series: Integrable Systems in Modern Mathematics
S. Novikov
April 12: Navier-Stokes and Other Super-critical Equations Avron Douglis Lecture
Professor Vladmir Sverak (University of Minnesota), sverak@math.umn.edu
April 19: Connection between self-similar stable mixed moving averages and flows
Professor Murad S. Taqqu (Department of Mathematics, Boston University), murad@math.bu.edu
April 26: Trisecting Angles: Alain Connes' proof of Morley's Theorem
Dr. Jeffrey Lagarias (Information Sciences Research, AT&T Labs - Research ), jcl@research.att.com
April 30: Special Colloquium: Abstract algebra in the 20th century Note special day and time: Tuesday at 3:30pm in Math 3206)
Efim Zelmanov (Department of Mathematics, Yale University), , zelmanov@math.yale.edu
May 3: Aziz Lecture: Multigrid: From Fourier to Gauss
Professor Randy Bank (Department of Mathematics, UCSD), reb@sdna1.ucsd.edu
May 10: Efficient Hedging of Options. This colloquium, which is in honor of the Math Department's retirees, will be held in Room 1412 (the large lecture hall) in the Physics Bldg. at the usual time (3:00pm).
Professor Charles Fefferman (Department of Mathematics, Princeton University), cf@math.princeton.edu